"Safe, clean, reliable" is their motto.

At least, sometimes.

This concerned Yankee (whose name also happens to be "Rob Williams") grows increasingly concerned about the viability of Yankee Nuclear.

Thanks to the Ohio Republic's Harold Thomas, for re-posting this vital philosophical DECENTRALIST statement created in Vermont two decades ago.

Credit goes to Greg Guma, who posted these last week (we re-posted them yesterday, as part of Greg's larger THINKING OUTSIDE THE EMPIRE BOX blog) - Greg tells me he was there at the 1977 meeting.

Veteran Vermont politico Greg Guma gives some thought to an independent Vemont here at his blog last week.

It is nice to return from a three week blog "fast" to see more and more thoughtful and committed Vermonters considering the notion of Vermont independence.

Good to be back - it promises to be an interesting autumn.

Leave peeping,

Rob

Read the New York Times story.

I might have used the word "entrepreneurialism" in the title.

But then, that isn't in keeping with larger national stereotypes about Vermont, is it?

Read the fascinating results of a brand-new Zogby Poll on secession here, sponsored by our colleagues at the Middlebury Institute.

Perhaps Americans are finally beginning to realize that the U.S. Empire is in deep trouble, and that the best way forward is peaceable decentralization and the dissolution of the United States as Empire.

As we've suggested here for more than three years:

From my media colleague Peter Phillips, who oversees the annual Project Censored project with his journalism students at Sonoma State University.

While I am not in agreement with his solution of impeachment (we're less than four months away from Election Day - time to let go the "impeachment" chimera), his article serves as a sobering reminder of the consequence of U.S. occupation for Iraqi civilians more than five years later.

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The day I went to see director Christopher Nolan’s edgy new film “The Dark Knight,” I received an e-mailed article from my colleague Peter Phillips at California’s Sonoma State University. Phillips, a sociology and journalism professor, annually publishes a book called Project Censored, a collection of significant ongoing news stories underreported or ignored in the U.S. mainstream press. His article cited a January 2008 Opinion Research Business report that indicated that approximately 1 million Iraqi citizens – one million – have been killed since the U.S.

A reality check, courtesy of the Ohio Republic.

A virtual sugar maple leaf to our friends in the mid-west.

Local economies purposefully restrict the region from which we source the
goods we need.  Instead of relying on cheap transportation to import the
skills of others--in the form of products--we are required to cultivate and
nurture the necessary skills in our neighbors.  Nothing illustrates this
point more poignantly than a local food system.

The one hundred mile diet is a useful way of defining an economic region.
If no one within a hundred mile radius grows cantaloupe it is likely that we

A 5 minute video mash from Eva of Seven Daze's "Stuck In Vermont" Fame.

Featuring our own blogger Jim Hogue/Ethan Allen.

Enjoy - and free Vermont!